Server Busy Error

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on September 1, 2009 at 8:50am

Generally what I've done when I've ran into that situation within a VB script is to put the "request" within a loop that has some sort of timer on it. So if I make a request and get nothing back, wait for x number of milliseconds, and try again. That has helped in most situations, but not all. I believe there's a way to suppress those dialog boxes all together, but I'm not sure if that's available for the program you're trying to access.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Niemasz on October 10, 2009 at 3:26pm

Thanks Damien, I have been away for a little but am back to grasshopper. I am not sure what the request loop looks like. It can take anywhere from 10 seconds to several minutes for the process I call up to return results. This is the way I am calling up the process and then reading back the data. How and where would you write such a request loop?

Dim path As String = (path & ".bat")
Dim proc As System.Diagnostics.Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path)
proc.WaitForExit()
proc.Close()

Dim path2 As String = (path & ".dat")
Dim FStream As New IO.FileStream(path_dat, IO.FileMode.Open)
Dim FReader As New IO.StreamReader(FStream)
Dim Line As String = FReader.ReadLine
Do Until IsNothing(Line)
....
Line = Freader.ReadLine
Loop
FReader.Close()

Jeff

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on October 13, 2009 at 8:05am

Here's specifically what I'm talking about. Its for accessing Rhino 4 through COM, but should be somewhat applicable in this case. If this doesn't work, then I would post on the Rhino Plug-ins newsgroup. Dale Fugier would probably be able to shed more light on how to suppress that dialog box.

http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/Rhino4Automation